About the Authors

Nobuyuki Saito

nobu99@nms.ac.jp

Affiliations Shock and Trauma Center, Nippon Medical School Chiba Hokusoh Hospital, Chiba, Japan, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Clinical Trial and Clinical Epidemiology, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Kazuhiro Sugiyama

Affiliation Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Tokyo Metropolitan Bokutoh Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Testu Ohnuma

Affiliation Intensive Care Unit, Department of Anesthesiology, Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Saitama, Japan

Takashi Kanemura

Affiliation Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, National Disaster Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan

Michitaka Nasu

Affiliation Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Urasoe General Hospital, Okinawa, Japan

Yuya Yoshidomi

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Saga-Ken Medical Center Koseikan, Saga, Japan

Yuta Tsujimoto

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Yamagata Prefectural Central Hospital, Yamagata, Japan

Hiroshi Adachi

Affiliation Department Intensive Care Medicine, Iizuka Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan

Hiroyuki Koami

Affiliation Advanced Emergency Care Center, Saga University Hospital, Saga, Japan

Aito Tochiki

Affiliation Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Tsukuba Medical Center Hospital, Ibaraki, Japan

Kota Hori

Affiliation Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Japanese Red Cross Kumamoto Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan

Yukiko Wagatsuma

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Department of Clinical Trial and Clinical Epidemiology, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Hisashi Matsumoto

Affiliation Shock and Trauma Center, Nippon Medical School Chiba Hokusoh Hospital, Chiba, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: NS KS. Data curation: NS KS. Formal analysis: NS YW. Funding acquisition: NS. Investigation: NS KS TO TK MN YY YT HA AT KH HK. Methodology: NS KS. Project administration: NS YW. Resources: NS KS TO TK MN YY YT HA AT KH HK. Software: NS YW. Supervision: NS YW HM. Validation: YW HM. Visualization: NS KS. Writing – original draft: NS. Writing – review & editing: NS KS TO YW HM.